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"This volume brings together some of the biggest names in European Studies to analyse the most important trajectories of Europe's development and the challenges faced by the continent today. No one interested in Europe will be able to ignore this extraordinary collection of scholarship."
- Professor Thomas Diez, University of Birmingham

"In its range and comprehensiveness it will be hard to beat; and it will certainly become an invaluable resource for sociologists, political scientists, historians and all others seeking the best information and most up-to-the-date approaches to the study of Europe today."
- Professor Krishan Kumar, University of Virginia

"An impressive account of the state of the art of the study of contemporary Europe... This is an outstanding work and a definite companion to all those interested in contemporary Europe."
- Journal of Contemporary European Studies

Europe is one of the world's oldest civilizations. But what does it mean to be European today? What place does Europe have in global affairs? How should we analyze its key institutions, system of governance and broader cultural, social and political dynamics? This exhaustive and timely handbook:

Explores the transformations that characterize contemporary Europe

Investigates how we can best study Europe

Consolidates European studies and provides a platform for future study

Increases the profile of European studies.

The Handbookpromotes the increasing diversity of perspectives employed in the study of contemporary Europe and EU integration and is situated within the context of Europe's transformations. It offers balanced coverage of political, social, economic, cultural and institutional dimensions of Europe, and includes chapters by leading authorities including Ulrich Beck, Craigh Calhoun, Donatella della Porta, Claus Offe, Anssi Paasi, Ben Rosamond, Gurminder Bhambra and Charles Tilly.

Multidisciplinary in organization, inclusive in coverage and cutting-edge in scope, The SAGE Handbookof European Studies is a landmark resource for anyone interested in Europe.

Introduction: The Shifting Terrain of European Studies

Chris Rumford

PART ONE: CONTEXTS: HISTORY, CULTURE, POLITICS

Europe Transformed, 1945 - 2000

Charles Tilly

The European Heritage: History, Memory and Time

Gerard Delanty

Europe beyond East and West

William Outhwaite

Postcolonial Europe: Or, Understanding Europe in Times of the Post-Colonial

Migration, Minorities, Marginality: New Directions in European Research

Franck Duvell

Citizenship, Deomocracy and the Public Sphere

John Erik Fossum

Social Movements

Donatella della Porta

Multiculturalism and Public Culture: A Historical Critique

Nick Stevenson

Religion: Towards a Post-Secular Europe?

Effie Fokas

The Welfare State in an Enlarged European Union

Susanne Fuchs and Claus Offe

Cities and Territorial Competitiveness

Neil Brenner

Regions and Regional Dynamics

Anssi Paasi

Borders

William Walters

An Intellectual Homeland: Governing Mobilities and Space in European Education

Martin Lawn

Network Europe and Information Society

Barrie Axford

PART FOUR: FUTURE DIRECTIONS

Reconciling EU and European Studies: Historical Perspectives on Regional Integration

Francis McGowan

Normative Power Europe: A trans-Disciplinary Approach to European Studies

Ian Manners

Europe as a Post-Emotional Idea

Stjepan Mestrovic

Understanding the Real Europe: A Cosmopolitanism Vision

Ulrich Beck

The Mountain Comes to Muhammad: Global Islam in Provincial Europe

Faisal Devji

Cosmopolitan Europe and European Studies

Craig Calhoun

This volume brings together some of the biggest names in European Studies to analyse the most important trajectories of Europe's development and the challenges faced by the continent today. No one interested in Europe will be able to ignore this extraordinary collection of scholarship.

Professor Thomas Diez

Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham

Chris Rumford has established himself as one of the most informed and incisive commentators on contemporary Europe. In this Handbook he has drawn upon this expertise to bring together some of the best scholars currently writing about Europe. Here are to be found both the best-known names and some of the younger and rising stars. In its range and comprehensiveness it will be hard to beat; and it will certainly become an invaluable resource for sociologists, political scientists, historians and all others seeking the best information and most up-to-the-date approaches to the study of Europe today.

Professor Krishan Kumar

University of Virginia

Chris Rumford's edited SAGE Handbook of European Studies offers an impressive account of the state of the art of the study of contemporary Europe... Overall, this is an outstanding work and a definite companion to all those interested in contemporary Europe.

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